Baris Unver

University of Minnesota

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Baris Unver was born in Istanbul, Turkey, where he began coding and building electronic systems as a young teen. He attended the Kuleli Military High School and Turkish Military Academy, receiving a BSc in systems engineering, before embarking on twelve years of military service in the Turkish Gendarmerie’s Signals Corps. He then studied for an MSc in information technology at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and is now enrolled as a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Minnesota, where he is focusing on human-computer interaction under the advising of Professor Lana Yarosh within GroupLens Research.

His current research is focusing on video-mediated communication systems, hyper-local social networks, and IoT hardware&networks.